Wednesday, April 17, 2013

About a
month ago a good friend served me some nice wines in the Zalto Burgundy glass.
I am confident this glass has to be my favourite wine glass of all wine
glasses, simply because it’s the glass I wash up mostly. For the type of wines I drink this glass brings out - like no other - aromatic beauty, zippy freshness and superb
handling.

Back to my
good friend, who was kind to pour me some Chambolle-Musigny from Pacalet in this
glass, which I quickly discovered had quite a significant profile than I was
used to. The difference was the weight and far slimmer stem. The handling was stunning – even better than the glass I already considered close to
perfection.

Things is –
when the glass is as light as this, it’s really more about the wine than the
glass, because you feel so close to the wine. With this ultra slim stem, the
glass feel like a really tight, vibrant and energetic bow ready to show its
arrow.

Being the
glass geek I am, I had to know more about this glass and this line in general.
Was it just a result of individual hand made glasses or had Zalto in fact
changed something?

I contacted
them and immediately received a reply back with the message; Zalto are
always trying to make their glasses better and it could very well be that my “old”
glasses was higher in weight". They also wrote that there are limits on how light
they go, because the glass will become unstable and eventual break.

Now that
reply was enough for me to make a reservation on a six-pack (don’t tell my
wife) with a small desire of Zalto selecting the thinnest stems available.

4 days later the
package arrived with 6 perfect Zalto Burgundy glasses. Now I have tried all 6
glasses since and they are absolutely brilliant.

Now I have
never weighed my glasses, but borrow my mother in law baking weight to see how
light these beauties were. The 6 new Zalto Burgundy glasses I received ranged
from 111g <> 122g, where my old Zalto Burgundy ranges from 158g <>
200g.

Other glasses and their weight (I haven’t
weighed all of them, but in general the number refers to the lightest glass I
have)